dewey decimated: towards a new knowledge ecology michael roy wesleyan university

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Dewey Decimated: Towardsa new knowledge ecology

Michael RoyWesleyan University

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"It took only twenty five years for the overhead projector to make it from the bowling alley to the classroom. I'm optimistic about academic computing; I've begun to see computers in bowling alleys."

--George LandowHypertext: The convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology, 1991

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Student Learning & Faculty Teaching

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Over the last decade, American higher education has created a doughnut IT infrastructure: all periphery and no center. We have invested in the machinery but not in the teachers and the scholars to make that machinery worthwhile in the classroom and in scholarship. The massive investment in networks and computers will not pay off until we fill in the hole, until we work together to create content.

From “Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet)”By Edward L. Ayers and

Charles M. Grisham EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 38, no. 6 (November/December

2003): 40–51.

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Collaboration is a means not an end…

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Cyber Infrastructure

High-performanceComputation

BroadbandNetwork

Connectivity

Large DatabasesDigital Libraries

Instrumentation

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Wesleyan Projects & Processes

› Content Management• Visual resources working group• Intellectual property committee

› Student learning• Student Academic Resource Network• Information Commons• Ethnography project• Information Literacy

› Faculty support / development• Teaching Matters• A(T)R: Academic Technology Roundtable

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Content Management

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1. info commons2. help desk3. outpost 4. group study rooms5. ref / it offices6. reference7. access services8. circulation desk

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Information Literacy

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